Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 327

Chapter 327

"You gave them to me." Colin's fingers traced the lower-right corner of the specimen, where a black signature with the letters 'C' - Caldwell's initial - was inscribed.

I stared at Colin, my breath catching. "Me? I gave these to you?"

All of these specimens?

"You said that the beauty of a shooting star lies in its fleeting moment. That the brief bloom of a night-blooming cereus is enough to dazzle everyone..." Colin turned to look at me, his voice as raspy as ever.

But it seemed to carry an endless stream of loneliness, grievance, and guilt. "Life is short, to preserve them forever, this was the only way."

I was shocked as I gazed at the walls filled with butterfly specimens. For a moment, they all seemed to come alive, flapping their wings, taking flight.

"I can't believe I would... like these," I said in astonishment.

Colin took my hand and led me into a room in the basement.

The door had a keypad, sturdy like a bank vault.

As the door swung open, I followed Colin inside.

the lights flickered on, a tingling shock ran through

Colin... finally opened his heart to

finally willing to trust me completely, revealing his hidden secrets, his scars,

with Colin's investigations - about Damian, about me, my parents, the

was the

watching over everyone, like the hand of

looked at Colin, a mix of panic and fear in my

be

of photographs and pointed to the bottom left corner. "This isn't the first serial murder case. Three years ago, after I left the psychiatric hospital, there

accidents, drownings, fires - seemingly unrelated, yet somehow

those 'accidents' is the same one behind the serial killings?"

common – they

who had reported illegal practices at the psychiatric hospital. "This man, Lamont, was one of the few

the doctor Dexter had brought to provoke Colin

all revolve around me,"

once

turn towards me, while the real

a problem back then, you had this chain of evidence... why didn't you go to

looked at me,

to tell me everything, right?" I asked, my

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